Now searching, sitemaps

Ask.com Google, Yahoo! and Microsoft Live Search now autodiscover Sitemaps. The new open-format autodiscovery allows webmasters to specify the location of their sitemaps within their robots.txt. More information at Sitemaps.org, and Ask.com blog.

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